Description

Robert Innis provides readers with a brilliant study of the relationship between philosophy and semiotics.

Author Bio

ROBERT E. INNIS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is author of Karl Buhler: Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory and editor of Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology.

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““ . . . [a] philosophically rich work that ‘ups the ante’ in semiotic theory.” —Robert Corrington
Robert Innis provides readers with a brilliant study of the relationship between philosophy and semiotics.”

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Between Perception and Semiosis2. Perceptual Inference and the Categories of Consciousness3. The Tacit Logic of Consciousness: From Perception to Art4. Action, Meaning, Quality5. Language, Diacrisis, Abstraction6. Sense-Funtions and the Vortices of Consciousness7. Consciousness and the Play of Signs